Jeff has been playing guitar and performing for

over 25 years. He has played in a variety of bands.

His music influences include bluegrass, country, jazz,

blues, rock and metal. Jeff's main guitar influences

include Tony Rice, Roy Clark, Chet Atkins, Albert Lee,

Eddie Van Halen, Paul Gilbert, Eric Johnson and

Brent Mason.

Jeff began playing guitar by learning country and

bluegrass standards. In his early years, he was

primarily influenced by his parent's record collection.

This included Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, Porter

Wagner, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Hank Williams Sr.,

The Carter Family, Roy Clark, Johnny Horton and

Merle Haggard just to name a few...

While still in his teens, Jeff formed a country band

with school classmates and his sister on bass guitar.

This group performed nearly every weekend at the

clubs and dance halls in the area. After graduating

high school, Jeff was hired by a Top-40 rock band

comprised of seasoned musicians nearly twice his

age. He gained valuable experience while performing

with this group.

When the Metal scene surfaced, Jeff was inspired by

the new level of musicianship. He studied players such as Eddie Van Halen, Paul Gilbert and Yngwie Malmsteen and

began a six hour per-day practice regimen. After

emerging from the woodshed, Jeff submitted a demo

to producer Mike Varney. Jeff was featured in

Mr. Varney's "Spotlight New Talent" column in Guitar

Player magazine in 1991. Jeff was later featured in the "Hometown Heroes" column in Guitar World magazine

in 1992.

Jeff's guitar style is best described as a mixture of

country, blues, jazz-fusion and hard rock. He

incorporates all of these influences into one impressive

package. There's string-skipping, double-stops,

bluegrass inspired melodic lines, blazing fast scalar

passages, soulful blues licks and jazzy chord comping

in abundance. You never know what he'll play next!

Through all of this, Jeff still somehow manages to

blend everything together in a truly musical fashion.